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-40 posts tagged "America"
Claire Lyons | Friday, October 13, 2023
There is something so American about fall. You may want to argue with me, cherry-picking examples of American nationalism like Fourth of July celebratory pool parties or monster trucks and Mountain Dew and mullets. You may even point at pickup trucks and blue jean shorts. But despite the overwhelming prevalence of summer vibes in American
Ryan Peters | Wednesday, April 26, 2023
One week ago, I was walking through the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul when several shop owners approached me at once to lure me into their store to haggle for some overpriced knick-knacks. There were maybe seven or eight shops in this particular hall and at least five shop owners approached me. I must have looked
Pablo Lacayo | Wednesday, March 1, 2023
One of my favorite classes this semester has been Politics of China, a solid political science course dedicated to the history of Chinese politics since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in the fall of 1949. I have been able to learn a great deal about China’s journey from near anarchy in the
Angela Mathew | Monday, September 6, 2021
If you’re a city person like me, “Nomadland” will make you slow down. This film was showing in the Browning Cinema in DPAC this past weekend; I was lucky enough to go on a journey with Fern, “Nomadland”’s elderly protagonist (Frances McDormand). I followed Fern, dipping my toes into a stream of rushing water, taking
Aidan O'Malley | Monday, September 28, 2020
In the promotional blitz leading to the release of “The Ascension,” the eighth studio album from the prince of sad boi hours, Sufjan Stevens, much has been said about the singer-songwriter’s shame toward the current state of our country. Of course, such discourse isn’t without warrant; on the final song of the album, “America,” Stevens
Ella Wisniewski | Wednesday, August 12, 2020
The NBA is back, baby! 22 teams have been quarantined to finish the 2019-2020 season in the bubble, a strictly regulated isolation zone located at Disney World. (I’ve been keeping track of sentences that sound like absolute nonsense outside of this year, and this is one of them.) Following the suspension of the season back
Jack Lyons | Friday, March 22, 2019
When describing relations between the Catholic Church in America and the Vatican, John L. Allen Jr. compared the climate to a game where two men take turns kicking each other until one of them gives up. “We are not actually engaged in a patient search for understanding,” he said in a lecture at Holy Cross
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, February 12, 2019
A response to “Fr. Jenkins has one hell of a job” Each day, I open the Opinion section of The [Failing] New York Times and often quip, “I wonder which President Trump tweet has people pissed off today?” After an anonymous op-ed flatly stated that a deep state coup was being prosecuted against President Trump,
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, November 29, 2018
We are all caught in the middle. You, you and you and me, too — perhaps especially me, an American-born-Russian caught under the clouds that surround the U.S. and Russia today. Let this piece be an invitation, then, to gain a little perspective. What is clear is that the new movie, “The Death of Stalin,”
Sara Schlecht | Thursday, November 15, 2018
It’s 2018, and nearly everything is political. Terrance Hayes’ sixth poetry collection, “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin,” uses that as energy to explore the current political climate. This collection of 70 sonnets was written during the first 200 days of the Trump presidency, and attempts to grapple with what it means to